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大家围观一下美国当代的白卷英雄,一个穆斯林娃在申请普林斯顿申请书上写了一百个#blacklifematter, 被录取了!When Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.3 w$ m8 ]; ^4 I/ R" `
/ P; N! i& m0 X5 c( G6 X3 ?So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in2 h, v+ C2 [6 ~/ c0 @! ` D. g
Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The
" A& k7 s. ?8 Q: R# [4 {" U0 yrisky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter
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% S% y% w: P4 k" O B" g7 L"I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted ," Ahmed said in an email. "I didn't think I would get admitted to Stanford: w1 v+ e7 M$ G8 X5 L& o- n
at all, but it's quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic
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On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over
5 s4 a; s* v' P3 f4 ~) y d2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a# Y0 M# t$ T' U( p; y) b, N- F
police reform campaign, and some of its founders, Brittany Packnett and8 }9 i, D+ O$ ]) P
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